Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as Phil Graham was putting together his new syndicate, Marshall Field organized an even bigger one. Last fall he bought out Chicago's Publishers Syndicate, a kit bag of comic strips, features, medical advice, the Gallup poll and assorted odds and ends, with an extensive clientele of 1,786 daily and weekly newspapers. Combined with Field's own Sun-Times-Daily News syndicate, which peddles to 73 papers such wares as Ann Landers. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Steve Canyon, and the dispatches of the News's foreign correspondents, the new syndicate made Graham's Post-Times...
...orchestra is all the colors. I want this orchestra to be a proof to the world that there are other things in this country-things you can't touch, feel or spend." The only fault in such high ambitions lies in the notion that to make something bigger or broader is always to make it better...
Because the X chromosome is so much bigger than the Y, women with two Xs have 4% more genetic material-the vital deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA-than men. Geneticists have speculated that this might explain women's longer life span. Whether or not the speculation proves correct, the genetic mosaicism reflected in red blood cells definitely gives women an inherent advantage over...
...high-speed 601 computer. The first 601 started whirring last month at New Jersey Bell Telephone, which is paying $375,000 a year rental for it; two more have been ordered by Reader's Digest and Newark's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Between lower costs and bigger sales, RCA's computer losses were cut almost in half-from about $34 million in 1961 to an estimated $17 million or so in 1962. After taxes, this presumably reduced the computer division's 1962 drain on RCA profits...
...quarter as much as steam from a 1,000,000-kw. reactor. The necessary uranium fuel is relatively cheap, and most of the cost of running a nuclear reactor involves a variety of other items. But the cost of many of these increases only slightly as the plant gets bigger...